winnielinnie
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Time to go read other interesting threads.
Weird, but okay. No judgement from me.
Time to go read other interesting threads.
Thinking about a separate ZFS forum section, I agree. And yes, sub-forums of "Getting started with ZFS" and "ZFS Performance" make sense....
This is also a problem for the forum in general. I think a lot of the posts are not about Core or Scale but about ZFS.
A better structure in my opinion would be to have a "ZFS" as a main category right beween "News and Announcements" and "TrueNAS". That category could have the forums "Getting started with ZFS" and "ZFS Performance".
It has a few mailing lists, but I'm not aware of a forum.Does openZFS even have a forum?
It has a few mailing lists, but I'm not aware of a forum.
hmmm slack eh? that will likely be getting messier as the ZFS userbase grows....OpenZFS Slack channel
There's a users' list too:the mailing list is dev/bug focused like the github right?
That is a very reasonable concern, it can be very difficult to even guess what can be the source of some problems. Perhaps we should leave that to the openZFS documentation team.....I don't think a ZFS subforum would be a good idea: a new user wouldn't be able to tell wheter to write its question there or in the TrueNAS section.
Even I wouldn't be able to.
Sounds like a reasonable concern.I don't think a ZFS subforum would be a good idea: a new user wouldn't be able to tell wheter to write its question there or in the TrueNAS section.
Imho, a lot of users simply don't read and open a thread in whatever section they want. I feel it quite simple to go post in SCALE if I'm using SCALE, compared to CORE: this is especially true for virtualization (post there, I've basically no competence to help you!)Sounds like a reasonable concern.
Maybe a better way would be to have a "TrueNAS General" category directly under TrueNAS and rename the other two to "Core specific" and "SCALE specific".
Another idea could be to ditch the (arbitrary?) separation and use flairs instead?
Looking into the forum right now, most entries are not specific to SCALE or CORE and even if they are specific to one of these, I don't see a problem them being in the same place.
A "General Discussion" area was closed recently, I don't see the need for it.Hmm... I get what you mean. How about this:
Under the TrueNAS category we could have
That way most posts would fall into General Discussion while you would be still able to ask a specific question in the corresponding subforum.
- General Discussion
- TrueNAS Core
- TrueNAS SCALE
- TrueNAS Virtualized
- Applications and Jail
- ...
Post in the section of the OS you are using/plan to use.The need would be that if I have a question that is not specific to SCALE or CORE, I can post it there.
For example getting started information or posts like these
New pool, 8 drives: 4 x Mirrored pairs vdevs OR 1 raidz3 vdev with 8 drives?
Or lets say I wanna discuss the new Samsung XY SSD and how that could perform as a SLOG device. Do I post it under CORE -> Hardware or SCALE -> Hardware?
I could, but that also comes with some drawbacks.Post in the section of the OS you are using/plan to use.
It could mean that someone like jgreco only uses CORE and does not visit SCALE, so his knowlege is missing in one of them.
Speak for yourself, I am an Elf!Personally all public forums have the same issues - What do you expect - we are HUMAN (aren't we - got those silly CHATGPT lurkers don't we?)